Businessman puts bounty on would-be assassin's head

A Ukrainian businessman is offering "big money" to anyone who injures or kills a man who tried to assassinate him earlier this month.

Vadim Chiorniy was hospitalised with head injuries after an attacker beat him with an iron pipe wrapped in newspaper on Thursday, April 4, Russia's Life News reports.

The assassination attempt was captured on surveillance footage and Mr Chiorniy said he saw the face of his attacker.

In a public letter to the would-be assassin, published by local media in the Ukraine, Mr Chiorniy warned that he had been a businessman since the 1990's, a time known for widespread lawlessness in the former Soviet Union, and had never "learned to forgive".

He pointed out that many people would be hunting the assailant because Mr Chiorniy had publicly offered a $29,000 reward for his capture.

"One week later or two years later – it does not matter when – but one day you will get drunk and tell everything to your drinking buddies or boast about it during sex (I saw your face, you are not the person who knows to be silent)," he said.